Some VLC plugins use external libraries and make extensive use of thefollowing persons' or companies' code:

FAAD2 - Copyright (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com" - GPLv2 or laterFFmpeg - Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers - LGPLv2.1 or laterFluidSynth - Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Hanappe, Conrad Berhörster, Antoine Schmitt, Pedro López-Cabanillas, Josh Green, David Henningsson - LGPLv2.1 or laterFontconfig - Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2006,2007 Keith Packard, (c) 2005 Patrick Lam, (c) 2009 Roozbeh Pournader, (c) 2008,2009 Red Hat, Inc., (c) 2008 Danilo Šegan, (c) 2012 Google, Inc. - MIT Licensefreetype - David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg - FreeType LicenseGSM - Copyright (c) 1992 - 1994, 2009 Jutta Degener & Carsten Bormann - GSM permissive licenseGNU FriBidi - Copyright (c) 2004-2012 Behdad Esfahbod, Dov Grobgeld, Roozbeh Pournader - LGPLv2.1 or laterGnuTLS - Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or laterharfbuzz - Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Google, Inc., (c) 2012 Mozilla Foundation, (c) 2011 Codethink Limited, (c) 2008, 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies), (c) 2009 Keith Stribley, (c) 2009 Martin Hosken and SIL International, (c) 2007 Chris Wilson, (c) 2006 Behdad Esfahbod, (c) 2005 David Turner, (c) 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Red Hat, Inc., (c) 1998-2004 David Turner and Werner Lemberg - Old MIT Licenseliba52 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or laterlibav - Copyright (c) 2000 - 2013 the libav developers - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibass - Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Grigori Goronzy et al. - ISC Licenselibbluray - Copyright (c) 2009-2013 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibcaca - Copyright (c) 2004 Sam Hocevar - WTFPL / LGPLv2.1 or later / GPLv2 or later / ISClibdca - Copyright (c) 2004-2007 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or laterlibdvbpsi - Copyright (c) 2001-2013 VideoLAN and authors - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibdvdcss - Copyright (c) 2001-2012 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or laterlibdvdread - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibdvdnav - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibebml - Copyright (c) 2002-2013 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibFLAC - Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 Josh Coalson et al. - Xiph.org BSD licenselibgme - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibgpg-error - Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 g10 Code GmbH - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibkate - Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Vincent Penquerc'h - 3-clause BSD Licenseliblive555 - Copyright (c) 1996-2013 Live Networks, Inc. - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibmad - Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie, et al. - GPLv2 or laterlibmatroska - Copyright (c) 2002-2013 Steve Lhomme - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibmpeg2 - Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse, et al. - GPLv2 or laterlibmodplug - Oliver Lapicque, Konstanty - Public domainlibogg, libvorbis - Copyright (c) 2002 Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD licenselibpostproc - Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Michael Niedermayer, et al. - GPLv2 or laterlibpng - Copyright (c) 2004, 2006-2012 Glenn Randers-Perhson, et al. - libpng licenselibsamplerate - Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Erik de Castro Lopo - GPLv2 or laterlibschroedinger - Copyright (c) 2006 BBC and Fluendo - MIT Licenselibsdl - Copyright (c) 1997-2012 Sam Lantinga et al. - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibshout - Copyright (c) 2012 - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibtheora - Copyright (c) Xiph.org Foundation - Xiph.org BSD licenselibtiff - Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. - BSD-likelibtwolame - Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Michael Cheng, (c) 2004-2006 The TwoLAME

Project - LGPLv2.1 or laterlibupnp - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Intel Corporation - 3-clause BSD Licenselibvpx - Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc. - 3-clause BSD Licenselibxml2 - Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Daniel Veillard - MIT Licenselua - Copyright (c) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. - MIT LicenseMusepack decoder library - Copyright (c) 2005-2011, The Musepack Development Team - 3-clause BSD LicenseOpenJPEG - Copyright (c) 2002-2012, Communcations and Remote Sensing Laboratory, UCL, Belgium - ISC LicenseOpus - Copyright 2001-2011 Xiph.Org, Skype Limited, Octasic, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, CSIRO, Gregory Maxwell, Mark Borgerding, Erik de Castro Lopo - Xiph.org BSD LicenseSparkle — Andy Matuschak et al. - MIT LicenseSpeex, Speexdsp - Copyright (c) 1992-2008 Xiph.org Foundation, Jean-Marc Valin, Analog Devices Inc. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, David Row, Jutta Degener, Carsten Bormann - 3-clause BSD Licensetaglib - Copyright (c) 2004-2013 Scott Wheeler, et al. - LGPLv2.1 or laterx264 - Copyright (c) 2004-2013 VideoLAN and authors - GPLv2 or laterZapping VBI library - Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Michael H. Schimek, Iñaki García Etxebarria - LGPLv2.1 or laterzlib - Copyright (c) 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler - zlib license

The VideoLAN team would like to thank the following donators:

Julian Cain, who made a $1000 donationThe French website MacBidouille gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5The French magazine à vos MAC gave €500 to help us buy a PowerMac G5Laurent Dupuy, who made a €540 donationThe French company Cybervia (Actech) gave €2000 to pay for webserver hostingDennis Perov - Hardware donation

...the following active members of our user community:

Alan WrightDavid J LaBarre "DJ"Eric AdlerJulien Bouquillon

...and code auditors and testers:

David ThielPhilippe A. aka "Lotesdelère"Sebastien Chaumat